![]() But let him whose ancestors were not ten times more guilty, cast the first stone, and the ashes of our fathers will no more be disturbed. And truly, it was a fault of no ordinary magnitude, that sometimes they did persecute. The persecutions instituted by our fathers have been the occasion of ceaseless obloquy upon their fair fame. But when other systems shall have produced a piety as devoted, a morality as pure, a patriotism as disinterested, and a state of society as happy, as have prevailed where their doctrines have been most prevalent, it may be in season to seed an answer to this objection. The doctrines of our fathers have been represented as gloomy, superstitious, severe, irrational, and of a licentious tendency. Such models of moral excellence, such apostles of civil and religious liberty, such shades of the illustrious dead looking down upon their descendants with approbation or reproof, according as they follow or depart from the good way, constitute a censorship inferior only to the eye of God and to ridicule them is national suicide. It creates and lets loose upon their institutions, the vandal spirit of innovation and overthrow for after the memory of our fathers shall have been rendered contemptible, who will appreciate and sustain their institutions? “The memory of our fathers” should be the watchword of liberty throughout the land for, imperfect as they were, the world before had not seen their like, nor will it soon, we fear, behold their like again. The influence of such treatment of our fathers is too manifest. And yet not unfrequently they have been treated as if they had no virtues while their sins and follies have been sedulously immortalized in satirical anecdote. Many of them were men of distinguished families, of powerful talents, of great learning and of preeminent wisdom, of decision of character, and of most inflexible integrity. And surely no nation had ever less occasion to be ashamed of its ancestry, or more occasion for gratulation in that respect for while most nations trace their origin to barbarians, the foundations of our nation were laid by civilized men, by Christians. Both the ties of nature and the dictates of policy demand this. Anita asks Perry to defend the young pianist who initially refuses his services.We are called upon to cherish with high veneration and grateful recollections, the memory of our fathers. However, Tragg believes it was murder and arrests Donna. Tragg finds that George was at a bookie joint at the time of David's death. Anita and George tell Perry Mason the tale, but Lt. George Worthington tells Anita that he saw David's car being pushed over the cliff, making his death a homicide. Eric Sturgis, David's partner in artists management, tries to persuade David's widow Anita to guide Donna into the field of rock-and-roll. The life insurance on Carpenter is invalidated due to him committing suicide before the policy was in effect two years leaving his business still strapped for funds. That evening David's car goes over a cliff, an apparent suicide. His business manager, Andrew Collis, suggests refocusing the career of David's protégé, brilliant pianist Donna Loring, into more lucrative musical fields. Internationally known concert pianist David Carpenter has a irreparably disabled hand, the result of a tragic accident, and a disastrous cash flow problem. When the suicide becomes a homicide, it is the protégé who is charged. A fight starts over the future of his young protégé. A renowned concert pianist with a disabled hand appears to commit suicide invalidating his life insurance. ![]()
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